Live Photos

Updated: 3 months ago

In Short

Live Photos aren't videos but animated pictures that bring movements and sound to your favorite moments. When you snap a Live Photo, the camera captures 1.5 seconds before and after the picture and then plays it back with a flourish of animation.

25 September 2015 9By Serenity CaldwellYou don’t have to wait until your best friend gets their very own iPhone 6s or 6s Plus to send them your treasure trove of moving pictures: Any iOS device running 9.0 or later can view them, as well as OS X users running El Capitan. Here's how.

25 September 2015 19By Serenity CaldwellApple's Live Photos feature for the iPhone 6s isn't exactly a movie or a still image: it's a mixture of both. And until app developers build support for Live Photos in their apps, you can exploit that JPG-and-MOV-combination in order to share your Live Photos to the world in gif or movie form. Here's how to do it!

24 September 2015 2By Rene RitchieThe iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus take selfies to the next level. Not only is there a new 5 megapixel front FaceTime camera but there are two new technologies to make sure you take the brightest and... most magical selfies ever. The first is the new Retina Flash that turns your screen into a 3x lightbox to really help in low light and at night. The second is Live Photos that animates a your selfie with a—fine, I'll say it—Harry Potter-esque flair.